My dear, said she, its the foolery of being Governor; if you choose to sacrifice all your comfort to being the first rung in the ladder, don't blame me for it.
It's surprisin' the foolery there does be in people.
I thought the common sense of mankind would break out like a flame, an indignant flame, and consume all this obsolete foolery of empires and banners and militarism directly it made its attack upon human happiness.
Even if we were dumb and acquiescent before, does not the blood of our sons now cry out to us that this foolery should cease?
It's just the balance of power and all that foolery keeps this country a roadless wilderness.
Over this pass the foolery grows grimmer and viler.
I know well there's mumming and foolery a-going on yonder; and I suppose ye join the merry-making, as they call it?
I wish the old nurse would not put such foolery in the girl's head," said Mrs Harrington impatiently.
In any case I am quite convinced that it would have been foolery on my part to have continued to pursue these methods--although I am not by any means so sure that all my trouble has been in vain.
In any case I am quite convinced that it would have been sheer foolery on my part to have continued to pursue these methods--although I am not by any means so sure that all my trouble has been in vain" (p.
It was a friendship in fooleryas we are told by the dedication of Greybeards at Play: He was through boyhood's storm and shower My best my nearest friend, We wore one hat, smoked one cigar One standing at each end.
And allowing that you could carry her off, where will you bring her to, and how thankful will she feel if through your foolery here her father's fate is rendered worse?
These will be forthcoming, still you must not enter into the study of this foolery too earnestly.
Especially when such toys are not without their serious matter, and foolery is so handled that the reader that is not altogether thick-skulled may reap more benefit from it than from some men's crabbish and specious arguments.
Such foolery as this and at such a time irritated me sorely; but there was no help for it now.
There he broke not his lance; for it is the greatest foolery in the world to say, I have broken ten lances at tilts or in fight.
Hereby may you perceive how much I do attribute to the wise foolery of our morosoph Triboulet.
At the end of a fortnight of foolery and feasting the two monarchs separated, and the memorable meeting of the Field of the Cloth of Gold passed from the hands of the costumier, the carpenter, and the cook, into those of the historian.
She objected strongly to that festive foolery which induces people who never met before to express hopes that they may often meet again, and which is the source of at least twenty proudest moments of about as many existences.
We have them in the hollow of our hands, and yond Wayne of Marsh will learn, as his father did, whither courteous fooleryleads a man.
The little foolerythat wise men have makes a great show.
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
Foolery sir, does walke about the Orbe like the Sun, it shines euery where.
The delicate foolery of Gilbert and the interpreting melody of Sullivan created an inimitable form of opera that delighted its generations.
Without venturing to ascend in his genealogy, we must admit his relationship to that ancient family of foolery we have noticed, whether he be legitimate or not.
Perhaps this dynasty in the empire of foolery closed with this Christmas prince, who fell a victim to the arbitrary taxation he levied.
Show Malvolio's character, his connection with the other characters and with the plot and the foolery of the play, and state the argument for and against Shakespeare's meaning to make fun of him as a Puritan.
There was no such foolery in the days of thy worthy father!
This foolery may do while you possess the power to maintain it.
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